Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Study reveals OLAH enzyme underpins lethal respiratory viral disease

Respiratory infections can be severe—even deadly—in some individuals, but not in others. Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity and other collaborators ...

Medical research

Newly discovered mechanism halts tumor cell replication

A research group at the University of Bologna has identified, for the first time, the specific location and genomic context where DNA breaks occur due to the inhibition of the topoisomerase I, a protein crucial for many biological ...